{"assets":[{"original":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/vector7.thumbnail.jpg","local":"\/data\/posts\/2007\/11\/0a98e02321eabbafc51706565c12b0da.jpg"},{"original":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/vector7.jpg","local":"\/data\/posts\/2007\/11\/010a3e21e435a1e88a1cfb2f65c1d918.jpg"}],"author_link":"author\/lerc\/","author_name":"Lerc","cat":"LD - Misc","categories":["LD - Misc"],"comments":[],"epoch":1196416440,"event":"","likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"75782","p_author":"Lerc","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"283472","p_title":"Vector Tail Game","p_cat":"LD - Misc","p_event":"LD10","p_time":"1196416440","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1197590400","event_key":"88","event_name":"LD10"},"source_url":"2007\/11\/30\/vector-tail-game\/","text":"<p>Proof I have real trouble coming up with good game names.<\/p>\n<p>This game was a quick one.  A week before a LD we had a warmup,  put in 12 hours during the weekend.    The theme was vectors and a subtheme of chains.<\/p>\n<p>I was quite pleased with how this worked out in a lot of ways.  The rendering was with a little 2d OpenGL style setup where I implemented pushmatrix, popmatrix, scale,rotate,multmatrix,LoadIdentiy, setcolor and line.   All of the glowy effects were done by a two layer drawing system,  A blur buffer of high saturation drawing and a overlay of bright low saturation.  The persistance came from averaging neighbouring pixels in the blur buffer and subtracting a bit.  I did that part with a wee MMX routine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/data\/posts\/2007\/11\/010a3e21e435a1e88a1cfb2f65c1d918.jpg\" title=\"TailVector\"><img alt=\"TailVector\" src=\"\/data\/posts\/2007\/11\/0a98e02321eabbafc51706565c12b0da.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of all, the thing that pleased me about this game is how fun it is.  It\u2019s a bit hard but I think there\u2019s potential for a great full game in this idea.   I build a linux version and had it running on my arcade cabinet for ages,  that was great fun.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the only sad part about this on is that if I had have done this for a genuine LD48 I would have used the extra time to make something even better.<\/p>\n<p>The final game isn\u2019t entirely my own work though.  I slapped a mod file onto the game for music.  Livens it up quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/screamingduck.fileburst.com\/Cruft\/LDWarmup.zip\">Download the game<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/final\/\" rel=\"tag\">final<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/glowy-bits\/\" rel=\"tag\">glowy bits<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/vectors\/\" rel=\"tag\">Vectors<\/a><\/p>","time":"November 30th, 2007 9:54 am","title":"Vector Tail Game"}